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A new Randy Travis single, sung through an authorised voice model
After a 2013 stroke left Randy Travis with aphasia, producer Kyle Lehning used James Dupré’s donated guide vocal to drive a model trained on Travis’s own vocal stems — then shaped the performance with Travis over months. The result is a restrained country single, made and released with his approval.
CBS Sunday Morning: from rough model to finished record
Official multi-service release
What it does
Hear the consent-led use of a voice model: a singer who lost his voice, his longtime producer and a surrogate singer, working with the artist in the loop.
Who it helps
People following voice-cloning debates who want to hear what authorised, carefully edited use sounds like.
How it was made
- Models
- Proprietary voice model · trained on 42 Travis vocal tracks — reported; the developer is not public
- Tools
- Guide vocal · James Dupré’s knowingly donated performance drove the modelMonths of fine editing · Lehning shaped phrasing with Travis in the decision loop
- Dupré recorded the guide performance knowing it would drive a model of Travis’s voice; the model was trained on 42 Travis vocal tracks from the vault.
- Lehning, who produced Travis for four decades, edited the generated performance over several months — millisecond-level musical decisions, made with Travis.
- Warner Music Nashville released the single on 3 May 2024 with the artist’s approval.
What the person did
Lehning shaped the phrasing and stayed in the decision loop with Travis throughout; the track is an authorised, human-directed production, not a raw generated song.
What we know
Creator-reported: The official release page, the Warner Music account and the CBS Sunday Morning film and transcript; the 42-track figure is reported by CBS.
Access checked — 2026-09-29 · Opened the release page, the Warner Music account and the CBS film page on 2026-09-29.
Can you use it?
The recording stays with its rights holders; we link only and host no audio. The model developer and licence are not public, so the workflow is not reproducible. It is AI-assisted and authorised — not a raw generated song. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a photo from the session.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-29. Updated 2026-09-29.